Shuntaro Netsu of Giant Glove

SHUNTARO NETSU - Sound Scientist of Anglo Japanese band   Giant Glove

Shuntaro Netsu & Paul Conneally are Giant Glove

Fresh Outta Brum: Tayla - Call Me Danger

Fresh out of Brum, Birmingham's TAYLA punches through the current raft of female soundalike songstress's with her debut solo track Call Me Danger. It's a 90's style electronic funk burner with a killer chorus.

Call Me Danger is co-written and produced by London based producer and songwriter Mr. Watt and if doesn't get your body moving then it's probably time to see the doctor. Think Nu Shooz with a modern urban twist and you're somewhere near the territory that Call Me Danger occupies.

Call Me Danger comes with a cool video that compliments the confidence of the track. I'd love to see a version shot wholly in Birmingham, the heart of the Midlands where Tayla herself hails from, a fine example of the growing breadth and talent emerging across the arts from Brum, the heart of England.

a butterfly beats
in time with the city
tall buildings and food

Little Onion
September 2016

Our Picnic Hamper

our picnic hamper
filling with cherry blossom
sweet pickled fish

Little Onion

from the Sake no Hana suite of 20 Cherry Blossom Haiku by Little Onion

Sake no Hana: http://sakenohana.com/london/

Slowly Unveiling

slowly unveiling

her cherry blossom tattoo

March becomes April

Little Onion

Little Onion is resident haiku master at Sake no Hana the modern Japanese restaurant in Mayfair, London. 

The Floodgates Open

the floodgates open

our first kiss our children

sakura blossom

Little Onion

From 'Cherry Blossom Haiku' a suite of 20 blossom haiku by Little Onion resident haiku master at Sake no Hana the modern authentic Japanese restaurant in the heart of London's Mayfair.

One Hundred Men

We take my mum and dad, both in their eighties, to Liverpool for a couple of days. My mum has wanted to see Anthony Gormley's 'Another Place' for a long time. A cold, windy and wild day at Crosby beach. Together we watch the tide go out, slowly revealing one hundred metal statues, casts of Gormley himself, naked, looking out to sea.

blowing its horn
the ferry heads west
mating gulls

Little Onion

Little Onion is the haiku name of Paul Conneally






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Sweetheart

sweetheart
don't wander
off the path

From Walk The Line - Pavement Publication by Maurice Maguire and Little Onion (Paul Conneally).

Maguire and Conneally transfer haiku like poems created by members of the Kings Norton community in Birmingham during a walk with them through the Three Estates following the path of an underground canal tunnel, on to the pavements and surfaces in the area. They attempt to register the estate with the British Library as a book but are turned down. They contend that it is a book and can be read like any other published book.

Cherry Blossom Moon

stuck to the bottom

of his patent leather shoe

cherry blossom moon

Little Onion

From Cherry Blossom Haiku a suite of 20 blossom haiku commissioned by 

Sake no Hana the modern, authentic Japanese restaurant in the heart of London

Blind Hope - 'on the back of an envelope'

'on the back of an envelope'
Work in progress 'Blind Hope' with Tom Green
Paul Conneally
Loughborough
2016

Dum Dum Dum - Directive One

Dum Dum Dum - Directive One 

Buzzcocks - What Do I Get

Buzzcocks  - What Do I Get

A punk rock anthem from Manchester's finest The Buzzcocks.

I just want a lover like any other
What do I get?
I only want a friend who will stay to the end
What do I get?
What do I get?
Oh oh, what do I get?
What do I get?
Oh oh, what do I get?
I'm in distress, I need a caress
What do I get?
I'm not on the make, I just need a break
What do I get?
What do I get?
Oh oh, what do I get?
What do I get?
Oh oh, what do I get?
I only get sleepless nights
Alone here in my half-empty bed
For you things seem to turn out right
I wish, they'd only happen to me instead
What do I get?
Oh oh, what do I get?
What do I get?
Oh oh, what do I get?
I only get sleepless nights
Alone here in my half-empty bed
For you things seem to turn out right
I wish, they'd only happen to me instead
What do I get?
Oh oh, what do I get?
What do I get?
Oh oh, what do I get?
I just want a lover like any other
What do I get?
I only want a friend who will love to the end
What do I get?
What do I get?
Oh oh, what do I get?
What do I get?
Oh oh, what do I get?
Well, let me tell you now
(What do I get?)
(What do I get?)
(What do I get?)
I get no love
(What do I get?)
No sleep at nights
(What do I get?)
Nothing that's nice
(What do I get?)
Nothing at all
At all, at all, at all
At all, at all, at all
'cause I don't get you

Songwriters: SHELLEY, PETER

What Do I Get lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Little Onion - SHE DEVIL

Little Onion - 'SHE DEVIL'

Video constructed entirely from shots within the infamous 'shower scene' in Hitchcock's film 'Psycho'

Music and Words: Little Onion
Performed by: Little Onion
Video: Little Onion

Little Onion is an alter ego of cultural forager, artist and poet Paul Conneally

Happy To Be Lost

happy to be lost
deep in London Town
these cherry blossoms

Little Onion

The first of a suite of twenty haiku written by poet Little Onion for the modern Japanese restaurant in London, Sake no Hana, to celebrate cherry blossom viewing season and their special Sakura menu.

 #Sakura2016

The Ice-Cream Man

the ice-cream man

points out the way to me

with an ice-cream

Little Onion

Hikyaku 飛脚 – Fast Messenger

• Japanese: 飛脚 (hikyaku)

Hikyaku were couriers or messengers active in the medieval and early modern periods, who transported currency, letters, packages, and the like. In the Edo period, the network of hikyaku messengers expanded dramatically, and also became more organized and systematized. Sando hikyaku (三度飛脚) traveled the Tôkaidô three times a month, and were generally employed by shogunate officials in Osaka and Kyoto to communicate with the shogunatein Edo. The messengers made use of horses made ready at post towns along the way - in theory, three horses ready and available at any given time - to ensure they would always have a fresh horse and thus the ability to travel more quickly. The same term, sando hikyaku, was also used to refer to an independent network of messengers (i.e. not working directly for the shogunate) who operated commercially in transporting messages and goods along the Tôkaidô, beginning around 1664. These commercial messengers were also known as jô bikyaku in Edo, and junban hikyaku in Kyoto, and operated out of roughly 86 establishments in Kyoto and at least nine in Osaka, with branch operations in Edo, and roughly twenty post-stations along the route. A much smaller group of messenger operators, known as jôge hikyaku (上下飛脚) or rokkumi hikyaku (六組飛脚) were based in Edo, and specialized in transporting materials for provincial daimyô. The Kyoto/Osaka-based messengers soon expanded their business, establishing routes connecting those cities with Tanba and Harima provinces, and with major provincial cities such as Sendai, Nagasaki, Kanazawa, and Fukui. Each company ran on a different schedule, generally sending and receiving messengers three times every ten days; a manager called a sairyo oversaw operations and took responsibility for the safety of packages. The shogunate also operated a network of messengers along all five major highways (the Gokaidô) called tsugi hikyaku (継飛脚), to convey official messages to shogunate and daimyô domains. Horses were kept ready at stations called tsugitate, spaced roughly eight kilometers apart, for use by the messengers. Some of the most powerful daimyô maintained their own messenger networks, called daimyô hikyaku or shichi-ri-hikyaku, as these networks generally had horses ready every seven ri (shichi-ri). The two most prominent daimyô who maintained such networks were the Gosanke Tokugawa branch families based in Wakayama and Nagoya. Messengers in the service of Wakayama han left Edo on the 5th, 15th, and 25th of each month, and left Wakayama on the 10th, 20th, and 30th. All in all, the time it took to convey messages from Osaka to Edo or vice versa, across 500 km, settled into a standard of six days by the end of the 17th century; in the 18th century, as the economy boomed and road and river traffic increased, delays due to congestion and other factors increased as well, and what once took six days now more frequently took ten or twelve. Meanwhile, however, commercial messenger services sought ways to cut down their times, and soon haya hikyaku (quick messengers) were making the journey in five, four, or as little as three and a half days, gaining time by running at night, and by making stops at fewer stations. In the 19th century, messengers somehow managed to cut the time even further, making the journey in as little as two days. However, these super express services were quite expensive, costing as much as four, or even eight or nine ryô for three-and-a-half day delivery of a message. Text shared by Little Onion from: http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Hikyaku

'Honeysuckle' from Bach Flower Remedies 38 Haiku

days weeks years
her mind a lost child
honeysuckle

Little Onion

from the haiku series : Bach Flower Remedies 38 Haiku

Shakespeare's Beard

Shakespeare's beard
emerges then disappears
in my urine

Little Onion

After performing 4 Stations 24 Hour Renga at Baltic with artist Alec Finlay and others Little Onion (Paul Conneally) took off all of his clothes and photographed them crime scene investigation style later coupling them with verses he wrote during the duration of 4 Stations which was conceived by Alec Finlay during his Baltic residency.

Bikini Line

bikini line

curling waves break

against the shore

Little Onion

Mustard

mustard

a month and a half

of black dog days

Little Onion

from the haiku series The Bach Flower Remedies 38 Haiku

The Jesus of Jarrom Street

The Jesus of Jarrom Street

Diagonally opposite Leicester's The Robert Peel pub hangs the Jesus of Jarrom Street. Just off the pavement behind a low metal fence in front of St. Andrew's Church. Today he has a backdrop of scaffolding poles. Some essential building maintenance is taking place. A workman walks behind the cross, a bucket of mortar in his left hand. He ties the bucket handle to a rope looks up and whistles. It rises slowly towards the roof.

two small boys
kicking a beer can
gorse flowers

Little Onion
March 2016
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